THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Decembee 7, 1870. 



The Eev. J. W. Todd, D.D., Tudor House, Sydenham, S.E. ; The 

 Hon. Henry Ayers, Adelaide, South Australia; R. W. Peregrine 

 Birch, Esq., C.E., Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W. ; Alfred 

 Stair, Esq., 4 Surinam Terrace, Stratford, Essex; H. Rivett Carnac, 

 Esq., of Simla, E. Indies ; Thomas Davies, Esq., 47 Rutland Road, 

 South Hackney, E. ; the Rev. S. H, Cooke, Northbourne Rectory, 

 Deal; J. S. Courtney, Esq., Penzance; John Johnson, Esq., C.E., 

 Chilton Hall, Perry Hill, Durham • the Rev. R. H. Morris, M.A., 

 Principal of the Training College for South Wales and Monmouth- 

 shire, Caermarthen; and Joseph Drew, Esq., J.P., Belgrave Ter- 

 race, WejTnouth, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. RemarTcs on some Specimens /rom South Afeica. 

 By Geokge Gket, M.D., of Cradock, Cape Colony. 



(Communicated, with Notes, by Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S.) 



[Abstract.] 



Specimens. — § A. Prom the Karoo Formation. — 1. Rippled sand- 

 stone ; 2. Shale with Estherice, near Cradock ; 3. Skulls and bones 

 of two or more species of Dicynodon ; 4. Water-worn slab of sand- 

 stone, containing the skull of a Labyrinthodont (?) ; 5. Block of coal,, 

 from the north-east margin of the Stormberg range ; 6. Possil 

 plants from the same locality, comprising Lepidodendron* , Sigil- 



* [Dr. Rubidge also refers to Lepidodendron as a Karoo fossil plant, in Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xii. p. 237. Dr. Grey's specimen is in a hard, dark, mica- 

 ceous shale ; and Mr. Carruthers, who has kindly examined this and the asso- 

 ciated fossil plants, says that it belongs to L. crenatum (Sternberg). On the- 

 same slab he observes portions of the stems of Galamites, perhaps of three 

 species, such as those that have a very slender periphery, — T. Ev J.] 



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